What is the name of the group of Christians who let the poison snakes bite them?

Question

Primitive Baptist
Fundamentalist splinter group?
Does anyone have any stories they could relate.
Could they do it if I bring the Snake????
**Snake Preachers may answer this one.****

Answer 1

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/04/0407_030407_snakehandlers.html

Founders
George W. Hensley (1880-1955), a preacher who had left a Pentecostal church when it stopped embracing snake handling, is credited with creating the first holiness movement church dedicated to snake handling in the 1920s. Sister-churches later sprang up throughout the Appalachian backwoods. However, the roots of the snake handlers can be traced further back to strict Calvinists, who were among the early English and Scotch-Irish settlers colonizing the Appalachian area.

Many of the later followers were brought into the belief through traveling preachers in the late 19th century, attracted by charismatic preachers who boasted great miracles and demonstrated wonders. James Miller, without hearing of Hensley's ministry, claimed he received a Revelation from God to handle serpents and baptize in the Jesus Only formula of Acts 2: 38 in the King James Bible. By the beginning of the 21st Century, snake handling had spread to Canadian soil, where a handful of Canadians embraced the Mark 16 revelation.

Answer 2

Pentecostals are infamous for it. It comes from the book of Mark..16:17-18 . I imagine all fundie sects have done it in the past until some of them realised...hey..people are dieing here. Not too long ago a pastor died about 50 miles from where I am at. The crazy thing is that it is illegal and the local news here did a story about it and they even knew it was illegal so they blotched out people's faces etc... I plan on doing some undercover work and finding any churches around here practicing that non-sense and calling the cops on them.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

I had a relative that attended a snake handling church for a while....

I have never been to such a church but have seen documentaries on some....i believe that's about as close as I will ever get to one...

you know that they also believe in drinking poison in their meetings...(seriously)

it makes for interesting church suppers....

God Bless!!

Answer 5

Corpcycles

Answer 6

I don't know if it's a group per se. I've heard of it being connected with Holiness churches, but it's not practiced by any of the Holiness churches in our area.

Answer 7

This is not a practise of the Christian Church. Christ never instructed His followers to allow themselves to be biten by a snake. It is a cult that has misunderstood the meaning of spiritual things of the bible.

Answer 8

mostly it is the Holiness church or a branch off the Pentecostals in the deep South that practice this, they also drink poison. personally I believe this to be tempting God.

Answer 9

think they are a Pentecostal splinter group but can not be certain.

Answer 10

Either idiots or morons I can't remember which.